Using toad

Hello Guys,
Please share your views based on your experience
Oracle 10g on Linux or Unix in DBA's perspective is it worth using TOAD?
Please let me know how much more resource toad session takes compare to sqlplus (command line session)
so will it put extra load on database
It has some helpful features but do have disadvantages as well?please list disadvantages as advantages mostly
mentioned on toad websites or documentations
I am concerned with some like resoure usage/utilization,security(can connect multiple db at a time so human error),
hanged toad sessions when run large query etc
Thanks in advance
Dev

user13152393 wrote:
Hello Guys,
Please share your views based on your experience
Oracle 10g on Linux or Unix in DBA's perspective is it worth using TOAD?What are you going to be doing with TOAD? It's a tool, simple as that.
Please let me know how much more resource toad session takes compare to sqlplus (command line session)
so will it put extra load on databaseTOAD doesn't take extra database resources in a typical sense. A database session is a database session regardless of whether it's been instantiated throught TOAD, SQL*Plus, SQL Developer or a.n.other tool. Obviously SQL*Plus is a more basic command line tool and therefore takes less disk space to install, and TOAD takes more disk space, but TOAD has a GUI interface and other things to make your tasks easy and pretty, so you'd expect that.
It has some helpful features but do have disadvantages as well?please list disadvantages as advantages mostly
mentioned on toad websites or documentationsIt depends. Using SQL*Plus will teach you to use SQL and the database properly as you will have to understand things from a raw command level. TOAD hides a lot of the technicalities from you and does it all for you, but then you would become stuck if you had to get the same information etc. manually as you wouldn't know what to do. Everything has advantages and disadvantages, but it's purely subjective (i.e. it depends on an individual persons point of view)
I am concerned with some like resoure usage/utilization,security(can connect multiple db at a time so human error),
hanged toad sessions when run large query etcI can connect multiple SQL*Plus sessions to different databases if I like, and they all look like command windows, so still opportunity for human error. What's the difference?
Why should a toad session hang on a large query as opposed to hanging in SQL*Plus? I think you're clutching at straws and worrying about nothing.
At the end of the day, many people use SQL*Plus, many people use TOAD, many people use SQL Developer, many people use other tools and many people use combinations of them all depending on what they need to achieve. Just use what's right for you.

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user2367151 wrote:
Hello ALL,
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=========================================================
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